This morning I started a 21-day devotional that Today’s Christian Woman is doing (www.giftedforleadership.com). There’s a free devotional guide you can download if you’d like to participate.
Today’s devotion talked about “spirituality vs. Jesus” and how so often we can mistake being spiritual for following Christ. But being spiritual can in many ways be like “taking up a new beauty regimen” if we’re not too careful.
After all, how many times do we set out to read the Bible so many minutes a day, to spend so much time in prayer, to go to church so many times a week, only to see those goals not always go the way we thought they would?
Christianity shouldn’t be about format or a spiritual checklist – it should be about knowing and seeking after Jesus with all of our hearts – it should be about falling in love with Him even more than we are in love with our own spouses.
Something I wrote in my journal this morning: “I think when we become so preoccupied with “the list” of spiritual habits that we end up missing the point – we make it personal – all about me – and not about people – and Jesus made it about people, about others, from His relationship wtih the disciples to all of His encounters along the way…. I have not studied Jesus as much as I should. I have focused more on what and how instead of Who. But really it is more about the “Who” than anything else.”
Just something to think about.
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